The Nightmare Character That Broke Tekken

[@imSaerilee]

To know how literally broken this character is One of the Leroys in Top 8 only played him for a few minutes before the tournament.

[@nunyadamnbidness2531]

thats crazy

[@wafflingmyboy1053]

I feel bad for the people who get destroyed imagine😭

[@cynicalnitro8416]

I mean he doesn't seem that complicated. He seems even more focused on throwing jabs than Steve... So spam square and triangle with an occasional O.

[@grimmashley8422]

You're KIDDING

[@samuelpacheco8888]

That a bruh moment

[@itriggerpeople4433]

Hey to be fair in his trailer he did say, *"YOU BOUT TO GET THIS WORK"*

[@LordDragox412]

"BLACK JESUS GON' WHOOP YO ASS!"

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

WE DIDN'T LISTEN

[@KillrOnDeck]

Mods you know what to do

[@Linosek279]

“See, I just want peace”

[@shadowblaze97]

@@LordDragox412 We don't have to take the Lord's name in vain

[@DrCryptix]

"Nightmare character that broke Tekken" Series veterans: "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

[@JunKazamaFan]

"The black guy."

[@DrCryptix]

​@@JunKazamaFan Oh, him! Yeah, Eddy's always been pretty busted, huh? The quintessential mash-to-win spamlord.

[@JunKazamaFan]

@@DrCryptix "No, the other one." (recalls T5 Raven and Bruce in the Tag games) "Damn it!"

[@robertjohnson-tz6mw]

Yoshimitsu more of a problem

[@StriderZessei]

Soul Calibur players: Nightmare, you say?

[@Michael-mm3mg]

"Akuma is broken" Leroy: *laughs in wing chun*

[@ToikaThatOneFrenchGuy]

Sm4sh : *Laughs in Bayonetta*

[@leonskennedy9463]

@@ToikaThatOneFrenchGuy not even close to being more op then Leroy

[@MEGASTRIX]

@@ToikaThatOneFrenchGuy Leroy is so easy and broken that in the day of his release almost all of the pros were playing him competitively lmao. Not even a full day mind you.

[@ToikaThatOneFrenchGuy]

@@MEGASTRIX ok.

[@HyunXP]

You can't blame people for picking Leroy. Sure it's an easy way to win- but when money is involved, it's obvious to use a much more efficient characters.

[@Buenomars]

Leroy is so cool that even before he was released in-game, T-Pain actually took notice and cosplayed as him!

[@princemwamba5230]

And looked spot on arguably the most accurate cosplay ive ever see

[@twizttiez4910]

That’s cool af

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

That shit was so sick!!!!

[@intergalacticdegengypsy6135]

When I saw that I honestly thought that they based Leroy off T-Pain not the other way around

[@settingittowumbo1953]

I listened to him on a podcast and apparently he plays video games constantly

[@midwestmonstaz3655]

Pro player picks Leroy Opponent also picks Leroy “Wait, that’s illegal.”

[@ShaunInce123]

He defended his neighbourhood a little too well

[@UltimateBallaPOM]

🤣🤣

[@adobongmanok3711]

Too hard

[@tmcttf8087]

He did what he needed to do.

[@third-ratedude4234]

He goes from Defender of the Hood, to Invader of the Hood

[@greedkingcobalt200]

@@third-ratedude4234 Roman defense ideology, can't be invaded if you took over everyone first.

[@geovaniraffaelli4508]

That guy who beat all the Leroy's with Julia is a fcking legend

[@FliskFLask]

I cannot entirely agree, since Julia was and still is OP as hell, but yeah, not at Leroy 1.0 level

[@ScientologyHunter2]

it speaks volumes about how op leroy is/was...when people were actually cheering for a julia player lol...that´s like rooting for Satan to beat Super Satan

[@Gazzoosethe1]

@@FliskFLask i play kazuya, dlc characters are too strong

[@MrAsiapride]

Which means.. Julia is broken

[@troymcclure681]

@@ScientologyHunter2 "super Satan " lmao 🤣😂 straight up dude

[@always_serpico]

Nothing brings out the toxic salt in a person, like a broken character.

[@ZaBrowski]

Evo Japan: "Wait, its all Leroy?" Tekken: "Always has been."

[@Kinos141]

*Bang*

[@diggap5097]

Laughs in Fahkumram

[@bastieadam]

Oops all Leeroys

[@Ceece20]

God I remember that tournament and everyone in chat was just hoping for not another Leeroy mirror match.

[@supaa6032]

Chat was rull of "ResidentSleeper" emotes lmfaooo

[@mee091000]

It's pretty crazy too. Because people were rooting for Julia. Everyone HATED Julia before Leroy was released. Julia has always been one of the most hated characters in the game

[@AmaterasuKoto]

Yeah, that was really awful to see

[@CulturedDegenerate]

@@mee091000 Julia's annoying but she takes a lot of execution and has a lot of hard-commit moves so I don't mind

[@mee091000]

CEO of Hentai ....Right

[@justas423]

Silver lining: At least the guy who broke Tekken looks fly as hell.

[@aerystargaryenii2565]

Right

[@DEANDRE_DTS]

Facts

[@wastelandking]

Word

[@titan133760]

And had a kickass trailer

[@qweqweqwadcsc]

No, cringe generic design

[@RestInRemorse]

His cane hits harder than my dad's belt

[@dk1800ify]

As it probably should.

[@fulanodetal7930]

I mean ...yeah, it's a cane

[@apexclips1807]

That sounds deppersing

[@gus9351]

As if you had a dad, he bought milk remember? Oh right you don't, because you were a toddler Edit: alright spare me the yikes, I was high when I wrote this

[@danr8267]

@@gus9351 what?

[@iNovaburn]

Imagine giving a character a move that does 30% guaranteed and is a launcher/combo starter... Oh and it had armor and hit mid on release.. lol Who let that shit past in design phase

[@rikittu]

Didn't they have a patch for leroy even before they released it? Maybe it was a conspiracy and nothing else but they surely made him broken to sell more DLC. Just look at evo japan, that shit was sad to watch.

[@szymacs7106]

What annoyed me the most is his parry moves

[@elpapibigbird1691]

Negan has the same thing. Lol

[@BullC6]

lol and then I saw the floor break...the ground pound broke the floor..after the combo was dropped. Geezus.

[@lahabitaciondeterciopelo913]

@@elpapibigbird1691 When has Negan been this dominant?

[@bellat.1377]

I love leeroy, sucks that playing him immediately feels like committing war crimes against gamers

[@chimuoma390]

Lucemon Child Would be Like This In Digimon Battle Spirit 2!GRAND CROSS!DIVINE FEAT!

[@chimuoma390]

@@codecaine I Got 1520 Orbs on Hard Mode With ExAgunimon!Imagine Lucemon!I would Get Over 2000 Damned Souls!So Fun!😈😈😈😁😁😁

[@Robotlien]

I mean, just play him, don't let others stop you from having some leeroy fun.

[@jamesnicol8352]

well, if you ki charge or taunt then that's the cause

[@dreadxplayzs7849]

It was actually fun you are trippin

[@bastinelli443]

Imagine the last memory of a Tekken tournament we have before the virus hit was 8 Leroys in top 10 Evo....what a joke.

[@egrassa1480]

7 in top8. No such thing as top10

[@kingkai6255]

There were 6 lol not 7

[@bripi244]

What tournament are you entering to have a top 10?

[@cyriszx]

History doomed to repeat itself , same shit happened in Tekken 6 with BOB's

[@bastinelli443]

Top 10 top 8 whatever, it was full of Leroys let alone all the pools.

[@corn5749]

*You either die a hero... or you live long enough to see yourself become the Leroy*

[@TheRiquelmeONE]

or you instantly are leroy and a villian

[@ryanc2115]

Hahaha

[@stealthfur1375]

Lmao

[@kabukicho3009]

Leroy is the hero

[@sylvestermalifa1653]

Good 1

[@Jacob-jg6cd]

There’s nothing more frustrating in a fighting game then when one character completely dominates the meta.

[@Mister_Clean]

Meta-knight and Bayonetta intensifies**

[@TheSilvershadow200]

Not even just fighting games tbh. Any game in a competitive setting where all play stakes are not equal can relate to the same. It's always awful.

[@YourMasta]

@@Mister_Clean those aren’t fighting game characters.

[@Mister_Clean]

@@YourMasta If Super Smash Bros isn't a fighting game, I'm not Mr. Clean

[@fan.of.nintendo]

@Kleek Vishon wtf is a Movement game 😭I stg the FGC would use anything other than the words "Fighting Game" to describe a Smash lmao

[@KazuoSasaki1317]

" YOUR EGO'S BOUT TO GET MORE THAN YOUR FEELINGS HURT " Every Tekken player felt that after going against Leeroy

[@takumifujiwara300]

The Akuma shenanigan was better bcoz the Skill ceiling required to play Akuma is really high. But Leroy? Leroy is the green rank savior.

[@melvinshine9841]

Leroy was straight brain dead. There's a good couple of characters with a parry of some sort and their's actually require timing. You could just hold Leroy's for a couple seconds and still get a good payoff.

[@tommymoodie2157]

To add to your point. The skill ceiling for akuma isn't just high. It's near impossible to teach. There are only a select few that akuma allows to unlock his power.

[@Birdfl3w]

He was legitimately pay to win

[@48Mei]

@Orochi 100%. It’s pretty much impossible to play Akuma well on a pad, and even playing stick the skill level is very high so it didn’t bother me as much that Akuma was in every tournament before because I know how hard it is to play him like that. But Leeroy on the other hand was and still is braindead. I immediately lost respect for every Leeroy player in Top 8 last year

[@felipechaves6100]

ezikillz you can play Akuma on pad, one of the best Akuma players is GoukiAkuma, European Akuma player who uses a Xbox pad

[@sodathejunker]

I like how Leeroy became the Eddy of the new generation.

[@Phurzt]

More like the Bob of the new generation. Eddy was a scrub killer, but never dominated top level play.

[@billyhaigh9274]

Seeing Eddie is Leeroy's son 🤣

[@ItsDefinitelyNotSpider]

Eddy was never that good ()with the exception of the double capo in TTT2), people just didn't know how to play the game back then.

[@cynicalnitro8416]

Let's not get crazy...

[@SPACEHARICE]

@@Phurzt i think he means in terms of a character who can be picked up by noobs

[@AceTrainerLupi]

Poor Mikio, he deserved that underdog win.

[@K4leb_tk]

Yes, he and Saint too, he deserves to be in the top 8 after all those years of waiting give you your main character back, give your best but the whole wave of Leroys did its job.

[@xravenx24fe]

Honestly, if it wasn't for Leroy, many other incredibly good players would have had a much better chance at winning just by advancing past Mikio. Gotta give the man props though, he did make it out when all those pros didn't and put up a hell of a fight, Julia being a mixup monster def helped too in the matchup.

[@chaotixspark7934]

No he didnt. Or else he would have won.

[@Rromantiq]

I mean I wanted Mikio to win but he didn't deserve to win anything lol

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

It sucks that mikio loss but I'm kinda ok julia is good right now an i am afraid that if mikio won they would nerf one of my girls

[@agentboi4794]

Leroy was too Gangsta for release.

[@MachJ84]

9:34 Ulsan was actually taking out hordes of Leroy's with his Bob and Kazumi who are his mains. He was a fan favorite who stayed loyal to his characters including Mikio who stuck with his Julia.

[@IbrahemWardany]

He reportdly used leroy once in an off-stream match but I agree with you, It's unfair to put him with the rest of the Leroys when all of his other matches were with his mains Kazumi and Bob. It was Him and Mikio that made this tournament bearable to watch.

[@versaleyang]

When Twitch chat actually cheers for Kazumi, you know that Leroy is BS.

[@jeremyfuller7730]

I just commented this right before scrolling down lol

[@boxtupos7718]

He used Leroy during Evo, that's why they said used Leroy at one point during this Evo. But I do agree there's 6 Leroy on top 8.

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

Mikio is the tragic hero of evo japan

[@Chavelo_00]

RIP: "I don't think we're actually gonna have that many (Leroys)" Also RIP: "I actually have a feeling that Arslan Ash can beat all the Leroys here" yeah ok, dawg

[@egrassa1480]

That's RIP for you

[@egrassa1480]

always staying positive

[@smm7mm]

Actually ash did beat all lerorys when he went to different tournaments in USA and also some local tournaments in pak. So RIP's comment was based on those facts.

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

@@smm7mm are those leroy players he beat the best players in the world?

[@onevision1598]

@@smm7mm i mean... if you ask tekken god prime to beat green rank leroys, answer is obvious.

[@darksoulsthug]

Leroy looks exactly like my British literature teacher from high school. Shout out Mr.Hardy

[@gannielukks1811]

I need to know him

[@omegamanGXE]

Moar liek Mr. Softy amirite

[@ipooponurface]

@@omegamanGXE 🤓

[@Rdotmop]

At least of all the characters that could have been broken, it was one of the most badass ones possible

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

Meh

[@chickenmcnugget315]

@@jessISaRicePrincess your face is meh

[@troymcclure681]

Dude he's not that "badass" you're obviously young AF

[@sartexir9285]

It kinda stains his rep for being a badass though.

[@williamwest9204]

They tried those arguments in smash bros, didn't hold there won't hold here lol

[@Laidback_616]

I haven't played tekken in a decade, but damn who knew Eddie's pops was so op lol.

[@DeadChocobo]

Leroy is Eddys father? That's never been stated

[@Forward.4]

@@DeadChocobo he jokin dood

[@mr.z9309]

@@DeadChocobo r/whoosh

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

@@DeadChocobo It'd be weird to have someone doing capoiera to be the son of a wing chun master lmao unless it's a lore thing.

[@F0X_H0UND]

@@mr.z9309 Go home redditor

[@diegoalonso3816]

- Welcome to the salty spittoon, how tough are you? “How tough am i? How tough am i?!” “I've beaten a high-ranked Leroy Smith in a Online-ranked-match!” - Yeah? 😏 “With Panda/Gigas.” - Alright, uh... this way sir. Sorry to keep you waiting.

[@pizzavictory113]

“Are you gonna main Leroy? No not trash player”

[@ShinkuGouki]

Leroy should be banned from tournaments

[@mayuzumiandme]

@This Is What Awesome Looks Like love how people complain about leeroy but no one was talking how negan did 98 damage with one button

[@mayuzumiandme]

@This Is What Awesome Looks Like for real i remember negan i went into punishment training and then immediately didn't play until the next patch

[@b1gs3xy17]

@@mayuzumiandme I think the reason he blew up is bc Leroy had everything in the game and it was all strong as shit. Don't get me wrong I don't like Negan at all, especially bc of his long ass cutscenes, but if anything rn Negan is just another character overshadowed by the stronger bullshit characters

[@Bigonewsnetwork808]

Notice how all the "Broken" Tekken characters are people of color right But all the white male broken characters are never getting downgraded White supremacy is in everything and it always has its supporters like all the white boys that complain about men of color being broken in games and then they patch them lower to cater to the white male cry babies so they keep buying there games and the company doesnt get targeted by the White supremacist and get killed and taken down . WEAK !

[@snakedoctor6969]

Damn they let the broken character into tournaments and nerfed him months after the fact. That world title is tainted

[@b1gs3xy17]

Oh yeah this character made everyone hype for Tekken and then proceeded to singlehandedly make pro players and Tekken KZbinrs jump ship and start playing other games for a bit. Nothing will ever wash out the taste of shit that he left in people's mouths.

[@YourMasta]

@@b1gs3xy17 it’s there own fault for shitting on their own game. Why have such a strong knee jerk reactions if you know the character is getting nerfed? It’s funny because all the pros that whined still played tekken for 12 hours a day, and all the whining did was knock tekken out of the spotlight.

[@troymcclure681]

@@YourMasta you comment makes no sense

[@bludika]

It was such a disgrace of a tournament, you can even tell Book wasn’t even happy about the win because Leroy just tainted the entire tournament

[@Lightwaverable]

The Julia in grand finals was literally Tekken vs Leroy and leroy won.

[@SirBranDon24]

Love the drip, hate the "what the hell just happened to my life bar?" Effect lol

[@Milly1738]

I even lost to leroy in treasure battle.TREASURE BATTLE!

[@tmcttf8087]

Ghost Battle is superior to that watered down mode.....

[@fyrlefanz]

@@tmcttf8087 No one asked

[@elcreyo]

@@fyrlefanz Ghost battle had an actual ai while in treasure battle you can just launch all day so it shouldn't be a problem to beat a cpu Leroy even if he was a broken character.

[@GinoArigo]

Don’t mess with Leroy, his dog, and his neighborhood.

[@marbollsmb3116]

It's all fun and games till Leroy Rushes into the Boss room screaming his name

[@498847]

People may not understand this reference 😂😂😂

[@Descro382]

At least he ain't a chicken

[@titang6173]

@@Descro382 *has chicken

[@syazwanmohd1314]

"Leroy Jenkins joins chatroom"

[@mayo10able]

God damn it, now I gotta watch that video again hahaha Leeeeeerrroooyyy

[@Clungenuggets]

I was screaming for Mikio to win at the time haha. Also never thought I would cheer on an Akuma in Tekken but that tournament proved me wrong haha

[@kennedylemon5837]

"LEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEENKIINS!"

[@OmeCoatl054]

Only the strategy worked... lol

[@Desh681]

His opponents has about a 33.33% chance of survival... Repeating of course

[@01jj01]

@@Desh681 👁

[@BiryaniLover365]

Certified classic meme 😁

[@ManishGupta-wb2wc]

The Dev's did this on purpose. So people buys the dlc more and more. When the community complaints about it they will slightly nerf it.

[@rillafy7966]

Yeah its like required to buy jsut to know the matchup

[@havefaithinnobody3575]

@Trollerlel009 pretty much. Alot of DLC is pay to win. Armor Kingu is the last legit tekken character😔

[@captainmega6310]

@@havefaithinnobody3575 actually or salt?

[@abouhali2459]

@@captainmega6310 nah they're actually right, not every dlc character is top tier but they're all questionable except of armor king

[@Wavy_Godd96]

They didn’t slightly nerf him they killed his ass.

[@Viewer13128]

this video skips over the fact that 80% of the ppl who got their hands on leroy were defending leroy at the start, lol. it took a while for it to sink in for them.

[@chikin6146]

It's all fun and games until a better player uses the broken character against you. Then it sinks in.

[@Homeboy8227]

To be fair thats common in every fighting game whenever a new op character is released. Sometimes you might want more data before you make a conclusion but sometimes people want to be carries or some meta breaking character without seeing the consequences of that

[@marcosdheleno]

and it made sense, the community agreed that he looked awersome, great design, fun gameplay, visually impressive fighting style. they were right in saying he was a great inclusion. the problem is, he came "overcooked". still, the problem wasnt the people defending him, it was the tekken dev team. they took too long to nerf him, they let it go like that, all the way to evo, and got egg on their face. at least they fixed it, its more than can be said about bayonetta in ssb WiiU...

[@ASlopedRoof]

One look at his frame data at the start was enough, one play showed it was so much more than just frame data. It was everything, he had everything. And it was obvious af from day 1, all the people who said otherwise were either ignorant or noobs.

[@jeremyfuller7730]

Yup. Especially commentators giving props to people playing Leroy

[@xmarksthespot1372]

This is just sad 13:22... But I think it's cool dude didn't have to resort to using a broken character to win like everyone else, shows he had allot of confidence in his skills and pride in the character he plays. Too me it doesn't matter that he lost.

[@c-manor-kage5620]

He's been nerfed three times but he's still...inevitable *thanos voice*

[@mrluigi641]

“No one character truly dominated Tekken” *has a video explaining how akuma broke/dominated tekken*

[@TheConpressor]

difference there is that not every pro could just pick him up, some did ofc, but they had to practice and akuma had been out for a looong time, leroy released -> pro picked him up and tore faces of people. Same as when steve was insanity, or jin, the difficulty of the characters made it so that even though they were insanity on paper, everyone couldnt just pick him up and destroy with them, especially online

[@troywebster3638]

this channel makes "definitive" statements every second sentence, and half of them are just straight up lies or bullshit lol

[@mauz791]

@@troywebster3638 easy clicks lol

[@Time2GoHam1995]

Akuma didn’t dominate Tekken. When Akuma was placing top 8 in tournaments, it was from 2 players. Takra cup being an exception to this as Akuma was the most popular character in Pakistan. On top of that, you didn’t really see many Akuma players online who can actually do what makes him strong.

[@Mirro18]

Didn't that... video come out before Leeroy was in the game? So like in comparison it might come across differently

[@TheMrBonzz]

Had a friend who wasn't really that good at fighting game before, but once Leroy got in he wouldn't stop bragging about how he could crush most of us. We knew right away he's gonna play Leroy, so we just let him have it for few wins but afterwards his ego imploded so we switch to Leroys and suddenly he hate how broken and unfair Leroy was. Leroy corrupts people guys.

[@jamesnicol8352]

He deserves it, everyone who has played Tekken has to eat garbage to get good

[@qweqweqwadcsc]

Unbelievably deserved I hope you made him quit and gave him suicidal levels of depression

[@Madeyoulook123]

I played him day one on rank, mashed, and won like 75% of matches. I’m not that high ranked, but he was ridiculous

[@duchi882]

His Cane feels like it hits as hard as a Nasus Cane 1000 Stack _"Q"_

[@yeghorsnitsar8385]

it is

[@Mordeiv]

What do you mean 1000 ? It's over 9000.

[@vito3510]

Get some life duchi

[@prismaticpaul]

D CANE in tekken literally

[@gdvanish7145]

Duchi i love you

[@Chernobog34]

I'm not even a Tekken player, but I LOVED Leroy's design. I was really sad to hear what a balance nightmare he was, because he made me kind of want to play the game. But I didn't want to be hard flamed if I made him my main.

[@maggoteater2290]

Just dont care about it and play

[@Wavy_Godd96]

@@maggoteater2290 facts. Fuck these people. They all play the most broken characters in the game anyways. Julia was one of the ones that was like high on the broken list and she still remains that way!

[@bushi430]

Play because he looks cool not because he’s op

[@zeropolicy7456]

Play to have fun, man. Whenever I play multiplayer games, I turn my accounts to private so I don't have to deal with toxic people being assholes. But I'm not gonna let weirdos that don't know boundaries prevent me from enjoying my favorite fighting game.

[@Antonio-is2cn]

Leroy clearly does NOT look "cool"

[@chalp1290]

I just realized Leroy is a black Donnie Yen as IP man.

[@NoxLegend1]

Leeroy is Bruce Lees disciple and meets IP man to invite him to Bruce Lees tournament

[@Steven-qm2nh]

D G yes! That’s hilarious and an underrated comment. He gave master sifu the plane ticket lol, only to be the true grand master

[@AnointedFlow]

What in the world? How did you just realize such a thing? Do you say this about anyone who does Wing Chin?

[@granolabar4966]

@@AnointedFlow Wing Chun* and Leroy was inspired by IP Man

[@jordanhuynh8609]

@@Steven-qm2nh Sifu means master in Cantonese. Its not actually part of Ip man's name

[@mackprime6975]

In all honesty, he looks suspiciously similar to my own dad, no joke, his face is so similar.

[@treebeetle6815]

Lots of old black dudes dress like him.

[@dartvid]

Your dad looks like a black Jesus?

[@firzt0]

Does he practice his fighting moves on you?

[@cake6851]

Does your dad know wing chun?

[@Penguinplayer-bt2ob]

Does he orbital you regularly?

[@Gloromo_]

Mad respect to Mikio for coming so far without giving in to the "meta"!

[@gandung777]

Not even pakistani legend could beat this karate teacher from karate kid trilogy

[@johanngaiusisinwingazuluah2116]

so much wrong with the last part of this comment

[@udinamursona1064]

lmao prolly gonna get woooshed but it's wing chun inspired from the ipman series

[@jevonsims900]

You mean Black IPMan

[@kevinbelho115]

Probably a call out to the new karate kid or as I like to call it "That kung fu boy".

[@henriquecampos4120]

The problem lies literally there! It's not Wing Chun. He has the best move from almost every character, but improved. Unseeable hellsweep, orbital heel, counterhit juggles. Take a look at Ganryu, or Julia... Right off the bat, you will say: Oh! This character is a Sumo Wrestler (Ganryu) or this character is a Baji Quan fighter (Julia). Leroy doesn't resemble Wing Chun for me, only his stance and a couple of fast rotating close punches. He doesn't have an unique playstyle because he has every single good move from various playstyles in the game. I think the fear of failure after the hype that surrounded his reveal made Bandai Namco take this path with him. I mean, he literally jumps and does a half circle overhead kick in the air. C'mon man, Wing Chun is supposed to be a grounded fighting style!

[@call_me_p1cklez101]

"As long as he's not over or underpowered" *Very poor choice of words*

[@higgiehat4520]

“Leroys all over the shop. You’ll be one of them, sooner or later.” - Father Gasgoine

[@nebulimes2143]

0:47 the Summit camera punch - FGC edition

[@rodmichaelaquino4075]

When Arslan Ash says the charscter is broken, it really is.

[@TheNightofWalpurgis666]

First one to call out Fahkhumram being broken, turns out it's true, including his hurtbox

[@bisnecronomidol6559]

Arslan says Lee is stronger than Akuma and Nina is bottom 1 sooo

[@blurryface5744]

@@bisnecronomidol6559 I'm not sure about Lee being stronger than Akuma but I definitely agree with Nina being bottom

[@2000Doriyas]

Nina bottom 1.. have you even played this game?

[@donshyne]

Jordan the guy won two EVOs back to back.

[@Reilly13445]

It's sad that I feel they purposely do this so you'd buy the new character and just nerf him after

[@MatthewTheUntitled]

Nah, it didn't feel like money grab.. more like "what if he'd lived up to the hype?" tragedy

[@Antonio-is2cn]

"DLC characters don't have to be OP they just have to sell"

[@bootlegspinjutsu9966]

*sigh* Lab Coat 21....

[@yeah5874]

Playing vs leroy was just so unbelievably unenjoyable. When he first came out his frames were unbelivable, he could spam 2 moves and win just because you couldnt do anything to stop him

[@pro2firez]

I'm probably misremembering incorrectly but I thought it was 6 Leroy's in top 8. Uslan (kazumi,Bob) and Mikio (Julia) were the only two of the eight (Tho that is hardly any consolation)

[@fergin4979]

Maybe i heard him wrong, i certainly didnt see the tourny, but i think he implied 7/8 played leroy at any point in the tourny not just in the top 8 games

[@shoaquem]

@@fergin4979 wtf qualifiers were 97% leroys lmao

[@woobiehastelly]

As more of a Smash Melee player myself! I compare the ability to have constant hitboxes out there to be a similar design philosophy as Sheik in Melee... Just possible to be a hitbox tornado!

[@FireantzBlaze]

"You're going out with nothing to show for it" Me: picks Paul deathfist

[@BullC6]

He can still terrorize with his parry, especially at intermediate level like mine. I am simple, I know some frame data...if its my turn, I go for the attack. But leroy doesn't care about that now does he. Its especially toxic online, a leroy player will still abuse his parry and some other moves, especially hermit moves, win 3 or 4 times. And when you devise a game plan to counter his bs he will either rage quit or lose quit.

[@axellyann5085]

Everyone who uses bullshit character quit when they notice that we are forming a game plan against them. They're incapable of switch playstyle when we download them, so they just quit.

[@qwteb]

His hellsweep still bullshit. And if you know that the leroy player loves to parry start using lows and throws. Or you can whiff punish the parry

[@BullC6]

@@axellyann5085 Happened to me couple days ago against a Zafina if you believe me. I haven't played against that character much and I have been playing tekken for 4 months. But I beat this Fujin Zafina player twice with my Usurper Bryan and he left. They just keep Abusing her stances and going for lows. I have a rudimentary gameplan against that kind of Zafina. I will upload it to let people see what works

[@BullC6]

@@qwteb As I said a game plan can be devised. But it takes 2 or three matches to get used to it. In my case. I started using Paul's ultimate tackle and throw game.

[@derekbuckler3859]

I know bull, the tekken online community is a millenial joke. It is a very toxic environment, and this is coming from a life long tekken, and street fighter player. Nina's beem my favorite character since the first game, thought i was invincible, until leroy came along. Like i said in my comment, tekken isnt tekken anymore. Friend of mine from England asked if i was getting tekken 8, and i blatantly said "no way in hell"

[@jamesquick9843]

So Jeff from virtual fighter made it to America, changed his name and learned wing chun. Dude gets around on that fish boat

[@ghostfacekilla11]

You guys do a great job of covering FGC stuff, its really hard for most esports channels to get it right for some reason lol

[@JunKazamaFan]

I loved the crowd participation with Leroy's "You're done/dumb!" Rage Art at Evo 2020. Mikio's Julia was a real treat, too.

[@Noctsranun]

Now he's back in Tekken 8

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

Looking more devastating than ever

[@TheGreatLuigi592]

From DLC to base roster

[@comradetyrone2298]

Remember that time when Noroma beat Arslan in Evo Japan with his day 1 Leroy and then made it top 8? Fun times

[@mrawesome4753]

Legend says he’s still snapped to this day

[@NoxLegend1]

Imagine how this tournament would be without leeroy in it. Basically all these leeroy upstarts would not make top 8

[@ItsLikeaPodcastorWhatever]

See what happens when a brotha hits the scene and starts doing too well? lmao

[@johnnysgameshortsandgameplays]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@blackout1524]

@john smith Black characters that are top tier get the nerf hammer hard. Sean was powerful in New Generations and 2nd Impact, but nerfed to bottom tier in 3rd Strike.

[@MarkyMatey]

Eddy is black.

[@Ghostly-00]

He would have still been nerfed if he were any other race too. Your reading into it too much lmao

[@emanuelsalgado2942]

Lmao 😂

[@IHateRecess]

That guy having to fight all those Leroy mains reminded me of hungrybox having to fight all those fox mains 😂

[@moasanenjamir]

That's a good one 😂

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

except everyone hated that one guy who did not play fox or falco lmao the turntables

[@fvb7]

@@Geheimnis-c2e dude I couldn't fathom how people weren't hype af for hbox tearing a hole through spacey supremacy.

[@juniperrodley9843]

@@fvb7 A lot of it was the Angry Jack Response. For someone who thought spacies were the only way to win, HBox was a direct contradiction of that belief. When reality doesn't check with a belief, people sometimes don't change the belief, but just get mad and try to find some explanation for why they're right and reality is wrong. Doubly so if they themselves invested huge amounts of time and effort into learning the spacies, since in that case, HBox's success would also imply (to some) that they wasted all that time and effort. It's all kinda dumb and not logically sound, but people are emotional, not logical.

[@Phantom-dh2vq]

​@@juniperrodley9843Another thing is that Hbox plays a slower and more patient game and the crowd pleasers are the aggressive players. It's like with Justin Wong in MCV2.

[@boxtupos7718]

I was really looking forward to Saint during Evo Japan, as he finally got his main back. Too bad he lost to Leroy.

[@G_Gr00v3]

Part of me wants to learn Leroy now, due to having studied Wing Chun for a while as a kid, but I'm sure there's stigma against him now even with nerfs

[@mikeg4490]

Leroy was the moment when I said, "so DLC characters are becoming pay to win incentives?"

[@lesh9418]

Smash players: “first time?”

[@Slick_Tails]

They still are. *cough* Fahkumram *cough*

[@JOfJaZ]

SohJinh fah isn’t buster to the point of winning anything. He’s just got a weird hitbox that really needs some fixing. Like Fahkumram isn’t anywhere close to the level of Leroy.

[@JOfJaZ]

Jinxed Swashbuckler Fahk is someone who does have abusable normals and with the way his hitbox is, and the way Tekken is on attacks missing because you’re too close and the hurtbox is now behind the attacker, yeah I can see him needing to be banned. Tbh, this comment was made before I really understood the gravity of Fahk’s problems.

[@malcocanedo9061]

@@JOfJaZ Not to mention he moves like a squirrel on cocaine.

[@Ilinca6]

I never rooted for a Julia player so hard in my entire life

[@redcomn]

I was call a cheat when i consistently win using raven in tekken 5. But leroy tho.

[@Archangelneos]

All I can hear with this character is "LEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIIINS!" lol. But I can understand that he would need to be a bit nerfed to be fair

[@medobrundo8481]

He looks like that character who trained all the other characters

[@lydellb]

Leroy came out right before EVO Japan (IIRC) and I remember watching the twitch stream and everyone rooting for anybody who wasn't playing Leroy. EVERYBODY was playing Leroy. Fucking OP.

[@poultriarchy]

Ayyyy wavedash podcast, cool seeing frame and arya in one of these

[@AnnonHa]

Leroy is that kind of a character every game has that gives you a love and hate vibe, or sometimes both.

[@dbzking02]

I can't wait for Tekken 8, especially with that cliffhanger in story mode.

[@kratosjunior817]

Leroy: I am inevitable Steve: Hold my be.. WEaVe! POW!!!

[@dwadeisajerk]

I been wondering why nobody used Steve

[@zodiacfml]

how could they fail this bad. leroy is as fast as the smaller characters but damage like slower stronger characters like jin/kazuya. he also has this short range move with very high priority which should make him vulnerable but no, it appears it hits easily with the opponents legs or arms. 9:00

[@bobbykushington]

Interesting video. I wasn't aware of this . Keep up the excellent work.

[@wubranch1]

Leroy is literally the coolest design I’ve ever seen, but they didn’t have to make him stupidly over powerful.

[@cyberbird8683]

Me the first time I've played with Leroy : "I finally found my character in this game" LOL

[@bruceleeupk]

The new guy that looks like Jesus in revelations makes people mad 😂

[@JihadBunnydick]

Yes! Somebody that knows!

[@galvatron77]

All day homie!!!!🤣‼💯

[@llamathecooldude691]

“These hands bring salvation only if the person was murdered by it”

[@320speed]

That's a darn good Scott Pilgrim poster in the back.

[@gfults83]

...who 🤷🏻‍♂️??

[@maximusdecimusmeridius728]

@@gfults83 Uncultured swine.

[@finfen9730]

I've been playing Tekken for over 2 decades and that release was a freaking joke. The Designers should be ashamed of themselves.

[@BigNix83]

Why?

[@vladimirtrumpladen1957]

@@BigNix83 did u watch the video?

[@jinkazama9999]

Same dood I hated this game ...thank God I only spent 11 bucks on it when I saw the trailers and gameplay when it first got released I promised myself not to support it and refuse to buy it then recently I forgot all about it and bought it....I hated this game probably more than any game ever and I've been playing tekken since tekken 1.tekken tag tournament 2 is best and it's not even available for ps4 unless you get psnow

[@AndroxineVortex]

I will never understand Tekken hit boxes. Character is laying on the ground; does a high kick and it connects

[@sourcesauce]

video games

[@somethingaboutcs]

as a julia main i was so looking forward to seeing mikio destroy book at evo japan... but wing chun

[@liminjini8147]

Oh come on man, HE'S IP MAN

[@200zero]

That's the fucking hilarious part Ip Man was fucking insane in the movies so it's only accurate Leroy would be insane in Tekken

[@Diggy22]

If Ip Man were a Black man from Harlem who trained in funky Chinatown in the 70's 😁

[@GBNationalist]

Leroy always felt like when dragunov was first added. Completely over the top combos and power with brilliant recovery; they weren’t even hard to pull off.

[@leorevolo7966]

Dragunov mains: can I have mids? Bandai Namco: have this insted (ads Leroy)

[@sungjin-woo1035]

No one character destroy tekken until leroy Akuma: Am i a joke to you?

[@The13thElysium]

IIRC some data miners found nerfs for Leroy BEFORE HE WAS ADDED which only added fuel to the fire! It made it seem like Leroy was this "Pay to win" character and a lot of people were put off by that! :O

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

I still can't believe that T6 Bob was out-Bobbed

[@BlackKingBaldwinIV]

FGC: Akuma is busted! Leroy: watch sugar for me real quick...

[@Keprion]

"I'm..not..trash..player" No mercy lmao

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

Evidence that actual Wing Chun in a fictional world is scary

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

I love Chinese martial art's but they are not good for fighting

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

@@jessISaRicePrincess that I know

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

As a casual player who watches my sibling play Tekken, this was really interesting. My sibling can hold his own with Lars, the only character he uses, though he's mid-tier (well, a pro with any character would fight better then someone mid-tier, duh :) He says the hardest thing he caught trouble with in fighting a Leroy is just learning the counters. With a tournament, you only have just the three rounds against a person to learn how a person uses a character so that's quite different than being able to play multiple rounds with someone and learn them. But doing so has helped him understand Leroy better and it not be so one-sided. As for myself, I'm a casual pleb who enjoys puttering around with my Tekken 3 bae Hwoarang (used to also enjoy Jin until Tekken 4 changed up many of his moves with DJ joining) and I like Noctis because I love FFXV, lol. Not great with either and no, you can't win with button mashing with Hwoarang. You might get lucky a time or two but his many stances will eventually need to be learned (which I've not) if you truly hope to be successful with him. Seeing those who have mastered him is really inspiring though!